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Imposter Syndrome – How Easily We Fool The World?

I found this new cafe in Columbus called Joyas – opened by a Bengali-American chef. And today was another one of my favourites – grey, rainy day, so I thought, let’s check the cafe out and get something spicy Indian ishytle. I got a break during lunch, rushed over – placed my order. It was bustling …

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The Art Of Browsing – Have We Really Lost It?

I remember this one time asking my younger brother what he did do that day – and his answer was oh! I was just surfing for a couple of hours. And I was quite baffled at that time – since I had not realized the addictive nature of browsing the web. The word ‘Browse’ originates …

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What Does Time Really Mean?

Most of us remember playing hide and seek as a kid, where everybody would hide except the one person who was supposed to find others. Imagine if you were the seeker and had to find others – except they could be anywhere in space. Woah! Right? Let’s add another dimension to it and say they …

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Will You Be My Friend – What An Odd Thing To Say?

Aki – our Shiba Inu pup, and I had one thing in common, among others. Our snobbery when it came to others of our kind. Aki would stand at the side of the dog park and decide which dog he wanted to hang out with – and he would go for a run with them. …

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Want To Know The Future – Follow The Babies.

I watched a video at work discussing the top five trends in 2030. And one of the sections in that video was titled – ‘Follow The Babies’. It talked about how the world population has changed and continues to change. A few decades ago, it was necessary to have multiple children as there was a …

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Why Focus So Much On Big Stuff When Life Is Series Of Small Stuff?

There are times in life when it just hums along smoothly, with no significant humps. You wake up, go through your day and go back to bed. And then there are times when it feels like a storm is shaking your life ship. We have all experienced those, right? I have had a couple of …

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Meanderings In The World Of Tomorrow

I just finished reading the book, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. And in case you are wondering, the title is not a CTRL C error but the book’s actual title. Without giving away too much, the book is about a bunch of kids and their lives described via video games. They are …

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Drama, Drama, Drama – Why Do We Love It So Much?

‘Keep The Drama On The Page.’, says Julia Cameron in her book – The Right to Write. For those of you now familiar with Julia Cameron’s work – she is the author of the book ‘The Artist Way’, which has helped billions of people, including me unblock their creativity. When I moved to Columbus, I did …

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Random Acts Of Kindness – are they really random?

While returning from Vipassana Course, I got stranded at Dallas airport. The usual reasons – were holiday time, the pilot was on a delayed flight, and the flight had maintenance issues, so they put us up in a hotel. Around midnight, they realized that the flight could not take off. Now, I am a veteran …

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Old Age Does Not Have To Cause Suffering

As I mentioned in my last blog, I completed a ten-day Vipassana course. This was a special ten-day course. And that means this was only for old students who have done the course before. And not just old students but students who had sat 20 days, 30 days, 40 days – and some veterans in the …

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